So here are a few quick thoughts on what each school might be thinking.
Oregon – We are bigger than this. We deserve more money. However, we need the Pac to stay together until the Big10 comes calling. How do we leave OSU? Will there be issues?
Washington – Yes, if we can keep the Pac together we have a better road to the CFP. We deserve more $, at least as much as Oregon.
Oregon St – PLEASE, let the Pac stay alive. We have a shot every once in a while to make the CFP, maybe. We just spent a ton of $ on stadium renovations. Will we be back in the Pac with Idaho and Montana?
Washington St – Same as Oregon St except, how do we keep UW from big timing us.
Arizona – we’re a basketball school. The BigXII is that a good or bad thing? If we win that league it is better than winning the current Pac. How much football $ can we get from the BigXII for being a basketball school.
ASU – Meh, we’ll go wherever the money is better. We haven’t been good in football recently. And we may not survive basketball in the BigXII.
Cal- Football $? Who cares, we’re an academic institution.
Stanford – We’ve got an endowment larger than almost any other school not named Harvard. Sports money, it’s nice but not our biggest concern.
Colorado – We bolted for more $. What happens if we don’t get as much as the PAC? Deion better stay for a long time to recoup our move to be without Texas/Oklahoma. Wait, no Texas and Oklahoma, we might win 6 games a year in the BigXII. Still p**sed about the Larry Scott oversharing of revenue from TV deals. If we bolt do we still have to pay that back? We won the BigXII cheating before, we can do it again.
Utah – the Pac got us to P5 status. Stillwater, Boreman, Wacko, where is Texas Tech located again? BYU egos? Not if we can avoid it. Kansas – that’s a football win. We’re a football school, do we really want to hitch our wagon to Cincinnati, UCF, Houston and BYU in football? Or do we elect to stay with Cal, Stanford, and the AAU schools. I think Utah is in a difficult position. Turn your back on the Pac or go for the sports $?
USC – Who knows what they are thinking? Other than we’re too big for the PAC, we’re too good for the PAC, we hated “the skirt” and we torpedoed Pac12 expansion. We’ll go great in the Big10. (We shall see.)
UCLA – Whew we got out of the PAC and are getting huge money. No more playing second fiddle in football to Utah, Oregon, and Washington.
The Pac12 conference leadership from Larry Scott to GK screwed this up. Now the athletic conference is being put in a corner, put up or shut up!
SDSU – really Pac? You couldn’t get this right before we were to lose $17 million extra is we jump early. Maybe if the Pac is around in 2025 we’ll join up.
UNLV – We’re technically a university. Too bad we couldn’t get a Pac invite before the Raiders came to town. Do we want UNLV? I don’t think they bring enough of the market now with the Raiders and possibly an MLB team coming.
Boise St – Oooh, oooh, oooh, pick me!
Colorado St – We’ll take CU’s spot. How much do we get paid.
Idaho – we were in the Pac from 1922 to 1959, maybe we can get back in. MOntana, want to come along?
Cal has some really old history of trying to censure other Pac schools, PCC, and the California schools started a conference without the Northwest schools. Though eventually they let them back in.
Do the Ivy league schools have it right? Academics for a University? Or do schools which focus more on sports have the right idea?
I’m a Utah fan, however I don’t want to see Utah give up the academic rigor they’ve achieved to be associated with schools only out for the money. That may not be a popular opinion.
Stay tuned, the Pac may figure this out by 2025… or will they.
What do you think the others are thinking?
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